There was a “feminist seder” at my moms’ UU church tonight. So naturally there was an orange on the seder plate. 
The story my mom told was that a rabbi supposedly said “we need a woman on the bimah like we need an orange on the seder plate.” But I just did a little research, and many web sites tell a different story. And it’s much more interesting.
Anyway, the seder was fun and I am completely stuffed.
Git yer Boston Herald here! 
or, um…your Boston Globe.
oops.
I’m just going to take a wild guess here and say they don’t want people going in this way.
I wonder if this is what everyone looks like through the eyes of a chiropractor…
I realize the eye is a very delicate and intricate organ, and that ophthamologists need very specialized equipment to be able to study them properly. But seriously…if this doesn’t look like a prop from a science fiction movie, I don’t know what does.
(happy to report that my eyes are fine, by the way.)
Last summer when Doug and I got the house ready for showing, we had to put a bunch of stuff away in a storage unit. We weren’t particularly careful about packing; we just wanted to get the stuff out of the house. But now that the boxes are going to be loaded into a moving truck, we figured we should go through them again, and repack and retape as necessary.
Spotted this guy walking along Newbury Street, of all places. Not sure if he was an environmentalist chasing down errant grocery bags, or just an eccentric kind of guy.
Back home, and the rain from Baltimore seems to have followed me.
Fortunately, my office is in a wide back hallway that sees relatively little traffic, so I am able to leave my open umbrella out to dry without it being in anyone’s way.
This morning I went to Goddard for a tour they offered to informal educators. I was the only one who had traveled any distance; everyone else was local. After the tour there was a showcase of program ideas and resources, and that’s what I was really there for.
But the tour was still interesting. We learned how they test anything that goes into space to make sure it can survive the noise and vibration of takeoff, and the temperatures extremes of space. This picture is of one of the many “clean rooms”; this object is going to be sent up this fall (hopefully) and it will be gathering information about the sun.
Today I flew down to Maryland. I’m going on a tour of Goddard Space Station tomorrow morning. I stayed with my friend Nancy, who lives about 10 minutes from there. Nancy and I went out to look at the cherry blossom, which are in peak bloom, but it was pouring out and we got absolutely soaked. We came back to her place and changed into warm sweats and hung out with her wonderful dog, Daisy.